The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) became a member and an
allocation agency for DataCite in 2011. OSTI assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
to Department of Energy datasets and registers those DOIs with DataCite. The Interagency
Data ID Service (IAD), developed and operated by OSTI, provides this same service to other
U.S. Federal Agencies desiring to make their data available for citation and discovery
long into the future.